

426 BOTANICAL GAZETTE ' [june 



Mirabilis limosa, n. n. — M. glutinosa A. Nels., Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. 17:92. 1904; not M. glutinosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3 2 :265. 

 1898, the latter a Bolivian plant; Hesperonia glutinosa (A. Nels.) 

 Standley, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12:365. 1909. 

 - Lesquerella tenella, n. sp. — A delicately slender erect annual, 

 2~4 dm high, beginning to blossom when very small; uniformly but 

 not densely stellate pubescent throughout: stems one or more from 

 the summit of the slender tap root, unbranched: leaves rather distant, 

 narrowly oblanceolate to linear, i-4 cm long, usually tapering to a 

 slender petiole: petals broadly spatulate, very obtuse or slightly 

 retuse, about 8 mm long, twice as long as the lanceolate sepals: pod 

 globose, not stipitate, about 5 mm long; the style about 3 mm long; 



the pedicel io-i5 mm long and variously curved and spreading or 

 even reflexed. 



Moapa, Nevada, April 8, 1905, Goodding 2184. 



This species belongs in the section having immarginate seeds and with the 

 annual species having globose pods; however, it has no known near relative. 



Linum leptopoda, n. sp. — Having the appearance of a perennial 

 but possibly only biennial, wholly glabrous, 3 dm or more high: root 

 stout, with white furrowed bark, the caudex-like branched crown 

 bearing several to many slender erect terete stems dividing into filiform 

 branchlets above: leaves crowded below; those of the crowns scale- 

 like, very short, 2-4 mm long and half as broad, leaving a crestlike 

 scale when falling away; lower stem-leaves 5-1 2 mm long and 1-3 mm 

 wide, becoming narrower, more distant, and finally bractlike above; 

 stipular glands wanting: pedicels slender, 5-2 5 mm long: sepals 

 about 5 mm long, green or brownish red, lanceolate, i-nerved, with a 

 few obscure glands on the margins as have also the bracts: petals 

 a clear yellow, 7-9™™ long, broadly obovate or suborbicular, with 

 obscurely crenate summit: stamens as long as the united part of the 

 styles; the anthers large, as long as the filaments: styles united a 

 little more than half their length: capsule about as long as the sepals, 



urn 



Las Vegas, Nevada, on stony slopes, May 4, 1905, Goodding 2276. 

 Except for the yellow flowers, this suggests at first glance Linum Lewisii 

 ather than any of the yellow-flowered species. 



